Female soldiers in S. Korea
A report from Yonhap suggests that S. Korea’s top brass may move to allow females to serve as rank and file soldiers in the country’s military. Currently women are allowed to serve as officers, though they are barred from the kind of activities that men perform as part of their mandatory two-year service.
Though a decision has yet to be made, the report notes that the idea came about due to an expected shortfall in military manpower. Interestingly, it also points out that the government is planning to reduce the number of its armed forces from 665,000 to 500,000 by 2020 to be compensated by enhanced weapons systems.
Filed under: Headlines, Korean War | Tagged: gender equality, Korea, military
